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Analyze my dreams, please. Leave out any references to my inability to commit and dead dogs from my childhood, but do analyze my dreams.
I am committed to NaBloPoMoing my ass off this month, but I am also working a lot, exhausted and in need of a long shower, a...
 
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Novembers past
One year ago today, I wrote this post. I never thought that launching Project: Life Change with the wise and loving CityMama...
 
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This little light of mine
I'm going to let it shine. This little light of mine.I'm going to let it shine. Let it shine. Let it shine. Let it shine. All...
 
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Lil E Explains: Pacifier (in)dependence
Lil E: Mommy, Mommy, MOMMY! Me: Yes, doll?I look in the rear view mirror at the boy in the sunglasses, OSU hat and Batman...
 
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I admit it, what the laser guy told me zapped my spirit a little. And (gasp!) made me question my MAC lipstick.
Once upon what seems like eons ago, I loved being pregnant. I loved feeling the stirring and seeing the feet move across my...
 
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He said yes.
If someone would have told me a year ago that all it would take to settle the details of my divorce was wielding a giant sword...
 
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And so the divorce becomes a quest
After my request to please do everything in our power to get this divorce done already, things with the Almost Ex have been...
 
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In case you care (and it's totally cool if you don't...honest)
I got eight hours of sleep last night. OK, more like 7-1/2, but still. It feels good.I didn't notice a big difference when I...
 
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When does sleep deprivation officially become self-abuse?
I've written a lot about how sleep deprived I am, about how I put the boy to bed and get back to work and do not shut down...
 
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Where I go when I can't sleep
It's rainy and I'm tired and I was up too late last night indulging my brain on fast-forward in whirring through my to-do...
 
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Lil E Explains: How you know you know stuff
It was Friday afternoon and for the second day in a row, Lil E distracted himself out of a nap at school. This does not make...
 
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Today is Love Your Body Day. And no, that doesn't include a discount to THAT online retailer.
Today is Love Your Body Day and as tempted as I am to celebrate that by calling up all the 20something men I know (oh wait, I...
 
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How to make toasted pumpkin seeds in 18 complicated and disgusting steps
1. Close the preschool but not the interwebs, which means the kid spends an inordinate amount of time "researching" gender...
 
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More than bubble baths and porn. I mean, bon-bons.
I'm working at this self-care thing one little turn at a time. See what I am doing first by reading my latest column on Single...
 
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You may want to mark this day on your calendars
I was driving through my neighborhood today when I looked over and saw a woman pushing a baby in a stroller. It wasn't an...
 
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What happened when I got stuck on the other side
I've been so busy buzzing about preschool, politics and playlists that I haven't yet told you that I'm now writing for a...
 
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Please God, just get me divorced
As we rode the elevator with my attorney down from the court room yesterday, she turned to me with a half-smile and said,...
 
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A year to the week: Back to court
I stopping in the middle of my week to try to settle myself, to just take a look around. This week, we will celebrate Lil E's...
 
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Call me crazy but I think the kid and the condo are trying to kill me
Would it be too conspiracy theorist of me to say that I think my apartment is trying to kill me?To be fair, the apartment is...